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Broome County executive to issue order banning hotels from accepting asylum seekers [NY]
WSKG ^ | May 11, 2023 | Vaughn Golden

Posted on 05/12/2023 7:37:09 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan

Broome County Executive Jason Garnar will announce an executive order meant to ban lodging establishments from accepting asylum seekers on behalf of New York City, WSKG has confirmed.

The announcement will bring Broome County in line with other counties including Orange, Rockland and Rensselaer, in issuing orders meant to prevent New York City from signing contracts with hotels to house asylum seekers in recent days.

This comes as the U.S. braces for a major wave of asylum seekers to enter the country, as the federal COVID-19 emergency expires at midnight Thursday, and with it, Title 42, a Trump-era policy allowing migrants to be returned to Mexico once detained.

New York City has been challenged in providing emergency assistance to hundreds of displaced asylum seekers. A memo obtained by CBS2 shows that city officials anticipate as many as 800 asylum seekers to arrive per day after the expiration of Title 42.

Multiple sources familiar with Broome County government operations confirmed that Garnar would issue the executive order Thursday, modeled after one issued by Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus on Monday. That order bans hotels, motels and other short-term rentals from entering into a contract with municipal governments, such as New York City, for the purpose of housing asylum seekers.

Garnar is set to announce specifics of the order in a press conference Thursday afternoon.

Despite Orange County’s order, a bus of asylum seekers arrived in Newburgh Thursday, drawing into question just how effective executive action will be in preventing New York City from moving the migrants.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: allinvaders; asylum; biden; bidenforeignpolicy; hotels; nyc; title42
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1 posted on 05/12/2023 7:37:09 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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To: Right Wing Vegan

There are ways around this but what property owner in their right mind would do this anyway unless the money was ridiculously good? Too many repair and cleaning expenses to make this worth it otherwise.


2 posted on 05/12/2023 7:45:08 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Right Wing Vegan

But i thought liberals just loved illegals? /s


3 posted on 05/12/2023 7:46:23 AM PDT by Bob434 (question )
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To: mikey_hates_everything
...what property owner in their right mind would do this anyway unless the money was ridiculously good? Too many repair and cleaning expenses to make this worth it otherwise.

"unless the money was ridiculously good" - is your answer, especially for an absentee landlord since it's a hotel.

The hotel owner is quite willing to ruin the neighbors' lives for money.

4 posted on 05/12/2023 7:50:39 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Let’s hope something like this splits NY State.

100 years ago, Upstate and NY City were on the same trajectory.

Now the two parts of the state could not be more different in every way.

The ideal solution would be to split the State along the Hudson, from Albany to NY City. The rest of Upstate could function as a normal state, more like Ohio or Indiana.


5 posted on 05/12/2023 7:56:43 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Right Wing Vegan

The Feds and state of NY can order the hotels to take them.


6 posted on 05/12/2023 8:01:29 AM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinions)
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To: Thunder90

I would think that this essentially shuts down a hotel and makes it into a section 8 housing?

this sems to be a LONG term housing project. It could take months/ years to get them out of a hotel once there.

And who would pay to stay in a hotel that is 80%+ “migrants”?


7 posted on 05/12/2023 8:09:58 AM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: mikey_hates_everything

REPAIR is more like demo & rebuild


8 posted on 05/12/2023 8:10:13 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: mikey_hates_everything

“Too many repair and cleaning expenses to make this worth it otherwise.”

Problem is if they can pass a background check, and they have no financial history, how do you determine they are illegals? A landlord cannot legally deny a rental application based on country of origin, and hotel rooms are rentals, so there are no grounds to refuse them.

The intent of the order is to, of course, protect the people’s property, but past laws cannot require the renter of the room to provide this information. And you can be assured they won’t.

wy69


9 posted on 05/12/2023 8:13:08 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: Thunder90
The Feds and state of NY can order the hotels to take them.

...not without a Certificate of Occupancy (CO) which is issued by the municipality or sometimes the county.

10 posted on 05/12/2023 8:19:13 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: whitney69
deny a rental application based on country of origin

Doubt this applies where its a city doing the contracting (and on such a massive basis), as opposed to individuals seeking lodging on their own.

11 posted on 05/12/2023 8:29:56 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Don't ever try to outkook the right wing vegan.)
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To: whitney69

I’m only referring to landlords who would WANT to circumvent this county executive order if they thought that the income was worth the trouble that the illegals were going to create. Otherwise, yep, I’m a landlord, it’s almost impossible to keep them out if there’s no previous record.


12 posted on 05/12/2023 8:32:39 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Thunder90
The Feds and state of NY can order the hotels to take them.

Possibly even in NY the political cost would be too much and they would leave it to the feds. We might see some court cases over this.

13 posted on 05/12/2023 8:32:51 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Don't ever try to outkook the right wing vegan.)
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To: uranium penguin

I get the sense that the hotels looking to take in these mutants aren’t modern, successful business establishments, but are already older, run-down places that cater to a seedy customer base.


14 posted on 05/12/2023 8:35:04 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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To: whitney69

Then again absurd notions can prevail in leftist courts.


15 posted on 05/12/2023 8:37:21 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Don't ever try to outkook the right wing vegan.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

How long before some judge in NYC rules this illegal?


16 posted on 05/12/2023 8:42:40 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: Bob434

I thought so too!


17 posted on 05/12/2023 9:54:41 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: uranium penguin

I wouldn’t!


18 posted on 05/12/2023 9:55:40 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: T.B. Yoits

If it’s a disaster declaration they can. And that’s exactly what they are doing. And your tax dollars are paying for it.


19 posted on 05/12/2023 11:58:45 AM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinions)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

“Doubt this applies where its a city doing the contracting...”

I didn’t look at the actual ban, but it appeared from the wording to be the actual people just trying to get rooms at hotels. If the hotels are not owned by the government, I don’t think they can usurp the property usage established for private owners. Nor can the private owners arbitrarily change their established policies to twist the laws if it is for a reason they can’t establish.

Could be interesting.

wy69


20 posted on 05/12/2023 3:21:44 PM PDT by whitney69
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